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This is definitely a man's book. It is considered by some to be the best western
ever written. I am in the process of reading all 4 of William's books. There is no doubt
he can write. Even a western with high adventure, buffalo hunts, blood and gore
don't take a thing from the prose. This book is a piece of literature----real literature.
Four men start out on an impossible quest. As things disintegrate, they are faced with
with near madness. There are four silent men, as only men can be silent, yet the reader will know
them intimately. I have never read better characters than William's book,"Stoner". Although written
by Williams it was entirely different from "Butcher's Crossing" It took place on a college campus.
Professor Stoner is memorable. I think man or woman will like "Butcher's Crossing".
It is well done, suspenseful, and true to the period. William's is now deceased but his books are memorable.


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Butcher Crossing New York Review Books Classics John Williams Michelle Latiolais Books Reviews

This book has been called the greatest western ever written. Williams is not a “western” novelist, like a Louie Lamoure, just a great writer that wrote a novel set in the west. The story is about a greenhorn from Boston with wanderlust caused by ennui who joins some buffalo hunters at “Butcher’s Crossing.” Let’s just say things don’t go as planned. Interesting characters, beautiful descriptions, but an ending you may or may not like. I could never quite grab hold of the author’s overall thesis, but I feel like it was my fault and not his. To give you a sense of the power of his writing, I was reading the book while riding the train to work and the passage was about the characters being trapped in a blizzard. When the train stopped and I went to get off, my first thought was if I had an overcoat to keep me warm in the storm I was about to enter. So, not frivolous fare, but a substantial read that isn’t dense. 4-1/2 stars our of 5.
"A cold wind blew across the prairie when the last buffalo fell..... a death wind for my people."
~~Sitting Bull

They came down into valley, and the buffalo herds were moving darkly over the land like waves on the ocean. The men slowly moved in on them. The first shot went to kill the leader of the herd, more shots would follow. My mind stopped. The buffalo just stood there in wonder of what was going on. and one by one they were killed. What innocence they had. What beautiful creatures. What a very moving novel.
Whereas westerns like Lonesome Dove, which I read long ago, and The Son, which I read recently, nearly burst at the seams, this one is tightly contained. The starry-eyed protagonist, Will Andrews, heads west from Harvard looking for Emerson's "Transcendent Eye."

He buys his way into the realization of a frontiersman's closely-held dream, financing the man's very specific buffalo hunt in exchange for a spot in the hunt and the incumbent tutelage. So the novel, then, largely focuses on the hunt itself and its aftermath.

There are only a handful of characters here and, perhaps needless to say, Andrews gets smacked in the mouth by the reality of Nature. There aren't many plot points to spoil, but I'll avoid them anyway. Williams takes on that Nature, targeting the mythology underpinning some of Emerson's more ridiculous cant. Keep in mind this was published in 1960.

The whole book is a character-driven exercise in realism, and really gets down into the details of buffalo slaughter, as well as what one might imagine months in the mountains might do to a small group of people. The ending is nicely done, and covers a lot of territory in a short space. I'm not sure if Williams meant him to, but Andrews still seemed a bit of a rube to me, even after he drops his metaphorical baggage.
I first read John William's novel, 20 year ago, when it was reissued by the NYRB Press, and recognized it immediately for a work of incredible craft, beauty and insight by an author I had never previously even heard of. A month ago, I read William's Augustus upon its re-issue, and again knew I was in the presence of greatness. But neither work prepared me for Butcher's Crossing which, hard as it is for even me to believe, surpasses them both.

Butchers Crossing is a novel that stares unblinkingly at the utter meaningless of our romantic (read, Emersonian) conception of Nature, and the empty egoism of our own inflated sense of ourselves as sentient beings, and yet finds incredible Beauty in existence. It is not an exaggeration to rank William's accomplishment in this novel with the novels of Melville, Conrad and Thomas Mann. It is book that will stay with me a long time, and that I know I will pick up again with even greater pleasure. A treasure, all the more so for being so unexpected.
This is definitely a man's book. It is considered by some to be the best western
ever written. I am in the process of reading all 4 of William's books. There is no doubt
he can write. Even a western with high adventure, buffalo hunts, blood and gore
don't take a thing from the prose. This book is a piece of literature----real literature.
Four men start out on an impossible quest. As things disintegrate, they are faced with
with near madness. There are four silent men, as only men can be silent, yet the reader will know
them intimately. I have never read better characters than William's book,"Stoner". Although written
by Williams it was entirely different from "Butcher's Crossing" It took place on a college campus.
Professor Stoner is memorable. I think man or woman will like "Butcher's Crossing".
It is well done, suspenseful, and true to the period. William's is now deceased but his books are memorable.